Hindi short story –part 2: Shy am asks her mother why
she has chosen not to attend the phone call. She replies; the story continues:
“Once you
left the village and moved towards the city life, leaving me here you may not
be know how much I suffered and lamented over your absence.
I would talk to myself: when will I hear
your voice again? Will you not come and see me? I had this longing to see you
and hear from you.
She
continued: “Do you know / while thinking and ruminating over your separation I
will lock all my thoughts about you in my mind and daily pray for your health
and that of your wife and children. Sometimes I will be talking to myself.”
“In those
days you would come very rarely to the village and on those occasions you and
me would sit for hours together and talk about the days gone by and the chat will go on till dawn.”
“But with
the arrival of cell phone I listen to your voice almost on a daily basis and
you also talk about various things…. But
I do not have any special or significant
developments here to talk to you. Indeed there is nothing that takes place here
which is of any great significance worth mentioning. Furthermore I will add
that talking too much would also cripple and break
love.No matter how close and intimate you are
if there is an indiscriminate/ non-stop use of mobile to talk, at one stage it will be
frustratingly irritating.
To
strengthen the relationship we need peace and loneliness and separation. If all
the five fingers are so close then they will look tied together and then the hand will be of no use. Likewise , as
there is an interval between the
fingers so also there must be some healthy distance between people who are
very close.
Without
realizing this if one is bent upon going
on talking endlessly then ,the end
result will be only an inexplicable irritation and anger.In those days your
father was in the army.Letter will come from him once in six months.I am an
illiterate and so I will have to give it to somebody to read it for me .for the next six months I will be
keeping that letter and keep on reading it(with other’s help).There was more
mental pain ,stress and despair and yet this kind of occasional letters
cemented our relationship with more solidity..
Just because
there is mouth many people are talking whatever they want to speak. That
is wrong. We should not waste the words .In so far as my relationship
with you
is concerned, I would like to
remain thinking about you and keep on waiting
for you. Now you take back the cell phone. It is no longer needed for me you keep it with
yourself” so saying she hands it over to her son “
( the third
part is the spillover and the commentary by S
Ramakrishnan I also want to
tell some of my experience…Because of Risha banu’s waiting I sat tight and did the translation straight from the
magazine by just typing . I must thank
her for speeding the work instead of postponing it .In a day or two the third
part will be posted)
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